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40.8 Million Missing Jobs
Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: All Employees: Total nonfarm
41 million missing jobs! I'd be worried, but that horrifying number is more than offset by the 47.7 million receiving food stamps!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/34SNAPmonthly.htm
Food stampers increased over 600K month over month. And the data ends well before Hurricane Sandy. A blowout number!
Extractive uses of credit for the win(ce)!!!!!!!!!
As Lloyd Blankfein says, "we're doing G_d's work!
ReplyDeletemab,
ReplyDelete41 million missing jobs and 47.7 million on food stamps?
I guess it all balances out. Sigh.
As Lloyd Blankfein says, "we're doing G_d's work!
I'm a nonbeliever! Shun me! Feel free to take a kidney while you are at it, lol. Sigh.
Gallows humor.
Feel free to take a kidney while you are at it
ReplyDeleteAs if they need permission.
Who writes the laws? Congress???.....bah! The only part of new legislation that our "representatives" truly know about is their personal pork that's snuck into 10,000 page legislation written by others.
"Representative" democracy! As if.
mab,
ReplyDeleteAs if they need permission.
You make it sound like the whole system is being gamed.
Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain
Players could focus on construction, reproduction, research, espionage, or the acquisition of money.
Never mind. I forget what my point was.
Pax Imperia is a Latin term, meaning peace from empire. See also: Pax Romana
No, really. I had a point but can't recall what it was.
Pax Romana
Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman peace") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
Roman Empire? No idea how I got here. Peace doesn't even make any sense on December 7th.
Oh, wait. I remember now. We were talking about congressional permission. I once thought we needed it. This explains my confusion.
Attack Renews Debate Over Congressional Consent
Most legal scholars agree that the nation’s founders intended to separate the power to decide to initiate a war from the power to carry it out. But ever since the Korean War, presidents of both parties have ordered military action without Congressional authorization.
The divergence between presidential practice for the past 60 years and the text and history of the Constitution makes it hard to say whether such action is lawful, scholars say. “There’s no more dramatic example of the ‘living Constitution’ than in this area,” said David Golove, a New York University law professor.
It's all so very complicated.
Perhaps we should stick to the Patriot Act. It's got patriot right in it so I know it will protect my freedoms.
ReplyDelete(It's Sarcasm Friday!)
It's all so very complicated.
ReplyDeleteIt only seems complicated to those that intend on actually following the CONstitution let alone the law(s). Check out these beauties:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
Criticizing the U.S.'s entry into WW1 was basically made a crime. For the life of me, I can't figure out the actual reason(s) why the U.S. entered into WW1. Historians just can't seem to figure it out either. Odd. Heck, historians can't even figure out why WW1 started in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918
The Espionage Act 1917 was strengthened by the Sedition act 1918. As we all know, ya gotta go the extra yard to "protect" freedom during times of war or "crisis".
And then there is the Smith Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sedition_Trial#Washington_1944
For some reason, the fountain of all knowledge known as Wiki doesn't provide much a a discussion of the "Great Sedition Trial" of 1944.
Wiki mentions that prominent Americans were put on trial in 194 under the Smith Act but their names aren't mentioned. Odd.
And then there is the War Powers Act. This one is roundly abused. All in the name of protecting our freedom........ and spreading democracy to countries like Saudi Arabia.......I mean Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Act
I think we should enact a law that punishes ANY offensive speech. We need "hate" crime legislation!
mab,
ReplyDeleteAt the Sign of THE UNHOLY THREE
3. Mental Hygiene is a subtle and diabolic plan of the enemy to transform a free and intelligent people into a cringing horde of zombies.
I knew it! We were warned about the zombies in the 1950s and yet did nothing!
November 30, 2012
Zombie companies: Are they haunting the economy?
The firm’s "zombie survey" of 180 lenders, including all but one major bank, forecasts more insolvencies and receiverships as banks are forced to get tougher on companies that are simply treading water.
We desperately need a good old-fashioned witch hunt to protect our freedoms. Burn all the things that zombies have infected. They are everywhere now! Just look at the banking system! Burn 'em! Burn 'em all!
Great Desperation times call for Great Desperation measures!
Gallows sarcasm. Sigh.
From #2 of the Unholy Three:
ReplyDeleteThis vaccine drive is the entering wedge for nation-wide socialized medicine, by the U.S. Public Health Service, heavily infiltrated by Russian-born doctors.... In enemy hands it can destroy a whole generation
Yes, it's all clear now. I should have known. Obama-care is even worse than Fox News says it is. And all this time I thought Obama was a Muslim.
Nothing really changes. We're still fighting the same (c)old war(s)! Just like WInston Smith.....sigh
The constitutional problem with war has come about because Congress didn't want to take the blame if war went poorly. Caving to the President with the War Powers Act got Congress off the hook.
ReplyDeletemab,
ReplyDeleteI'm polio "free"! Oh the humanity! ;)
Scott,
ReplyDeleteI had a similar theory. I figured Congress just wanted to protect their pristine approval rating, lol.